Digest of Appellate Decisions July 2010
Allegheny Ludlum Corporation v. WCAB (Holmes), 1623 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Fitzgibbons v. WCAB (City of Philadelphia), 2041 C.D. 2008 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc. v. WCAB (Guyders), 2477 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2009) Six L’s Packing Company and its claims administrator, Broadspire Services, Inc. v. WCAB (Williamson), 686 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth…. Read more »
NWCDN Seminar
Recently, we published an event alert, notifying our fabulous friends and courteous claim contacts that the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN) was setting its sensational and soothing sails to explore the wind-kissed shores of the Windy City itself, Chicago, with all its amazing sights, to include the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, the Magnificent Mile,… Read more »
Digest of Appellate Decisions August 2010
Hall v. WCAB (America Service Group), 404 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) McKenna v. WCAB (SSM Industries, Inc. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.), 454 C.D. 2010 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Aston Township v. WCAB (Mc Partland); McPartland v. WCAB (Aston Township), 2553 and 2607 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010)
America’s Funniest Videos II
No, this newsletter is not a commentary on the ubiquitous if dehumanizing television shows highlighting the human fascination with and faculty for videotaping stupid human acts, seemingly contradicting Darwian evolution. It is, however, a newsletter discussing the significance, if at all, of a recent Pennsylvania Superior Court opinion, in Ahmed Tagouma v. Investigative Consultant Services, Inc.,… Read more »
Sock-It-To-Me (Sackett III)
In a triumph of form over substance, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has issued its latest ruling in the Sackett saga, in a classic contractual dispute between insurer and insured over the insured’s demand that underinsured motorists protection benefits be stacked, after the insured executed a valid declination/waiver of stacking, before purchasing and adding a third vehicle to… Read more »
Digest of Appellate Decisions September 2010
PPL v. WCAB (Rebo), 2264 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth, 2010) City of Pittsburgh and UPMC Benefit Management Services, Inc. v. WCAB (Robinson), 1770 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010)
Digest of Appellate Decisions October 2010
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections v. WCAB (Wagner-Stover), 1133 C.D. 2008 (Pa. Cmwlth, 2010) Muir v. WCAB (Visteon Systems LLC), 274 C.D. 2010; Visteon Systems and GAB Robins v. WCAB (Muir), 279 C.D. 2009 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Payes v. WCAB (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/State Police), 461 C.D. 2010 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2010) Day v. WCAB (City… Read more »
Being Normal
No matter what you do, that is what you are, and, depending on what you do, and how you do it, defines whether you are normal or not, with insincere apologies to Young Frankenstein and Igor. Not to worry, this is not an indictment of your work ethic, nor is it about your political, religious,… Read more »
Recent Philadelphia Verdict Statistics
Since not all of our faithful followers subscribe to the Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, the oldest law journal in the United States, it is worth reporting that the Legal Intelligencer published a very interesting article on September 30, 2010, in which it was reported that the number of jury verdicts in excess of $1,000,000 had… Read more »
The Real Diehl
Eleven years have passed since the Claimant, Timothy Diehl, sustained a work-related injury on May 24, 1999. Over the 590.428 weeks and 11.35 years that the Claimant has been receiving workers’ compensation benefits, he has become ensconced in our compensation consciousness as a result of several infamous decisions examining the interplay between impairment ratings and… Read more »
